Freshii

This place is literally the biggest rip off. You pay $ 10 for a meal with literally the smallest amount of toppings, and just a massive bowl of rice. I’m usually just eating plain rice with sriracha towards the end. I feel so ripped off every time I eat from there that I always vow to never return. Compared to IQ foods, this place is a complete joke. I honesty hope this place closes. Check out Bibab Express north of Bloor on Yonge as an alternative to this place.
Also, Freshii has the WORST customer service. I found a decaying leaf in my bowl once a while ago and I emailed them a picture of it. I never heard back.

The only reason I go is because it’s next to my work, but everytime i go i feel ripped off. You get so little for the amount you pay. And every additional thing you want they charge you double for it. It will be the last time I’m going. It’s just another over-​priced pretentious place.

I love freshii but this location piles on the salad dressing. Every time I get a salad it’s swimming in dressing. I will always ask for not so much dressing but it’s always the same thing.
The line up is always quick so I appreciate that for be able to get back to the office in time after lunch. I would recommend going to the location at Church and Wellesley for a healthier salad.

Freshii is a great option if you work next door and want something reasonably healthy. Otherwise, this spot is nothing to travel for.
I’ve had their frozen yogurt — adequate; the lemongrass soup — lacks flavour; a custom burrito — safest, tastiest bet; green juice — worth it, you can see exactly whats going into it.
This is a better, cheaper option than Camros on Hayden — I think that place has gone quite downhill on the flavours and is so expensive.

I ended up doing their juice cleanse at this location, and for the most part, it was pretty good. They were great with scheduling. I got to the location every morning and my days juices were ready to go and they quickly put together my Metaboost salad within a few minutes and I was out the door in 10 minutes.
The juices were really nice and I enjoyed them quite a bit. And despite having reservations with having a salad as my only meal at the end of the day, the Metaboost was super filling and I didnt go to bed hungry (I did go to bed unfulfilled, lets be real, juice cleanses are soul crushing and please remind me to never do one again). Some days the juices tasted pretty watered down, so that was a meh, but otherwise, I felt it was worth the money!

I finally went in there to create my own salad and was bummed out by the time I got back to my office.
Wasn’t the freshest ingredients and they drenched the whole thing in dressing (even though I indicated half). Paid like $ 15 for it. Barely any chick peas, avocado or even black olives. Mostly spinach resting wet at the bottom.
I’m giving it two stars cause I actually love the décor and set up. But the food. nah.

I’ve walked by the various locations of Freshii many times and finally went to try it yesterday for lunch. I was STARVING and thought a cobb salad with chicken (almost $ 13 taxes in) would be a sufficient lunch. I was so wrong.
The portion size looks okay, but it’s mostly lettuce and was pretty sparse on the toppings. Hardly any avocado to be found and very few chicken pieces.
I have paid less than $ 10 for a much better salad at Druxys where the toppings are unlimited and they don’t skimp on anything. Yes, the lettuce was fresh, but it was not better than other salad bars.
I wouldn’t recommend this place, as it’s not worth what you pay. I was left unsatisfied and still really hungry. I felt like I’d had an appetizer not a lunch.

Love the healthy options but a little on the pricey side (as is all healthier food options). But it’s worth the money and they don’t skimp on the stuff. My wrap was stuffed and made me feel very satisfied and full.
You can make your own by checking off a little order form with what you want. Or pick from their choices on the menu.
Soups, rice bowls, wraps and salads. Delicious.

Just got a blueberry crumble oatmeal (since they actually open at 7am) and it was sooo good! Exactly what I was looking for, cooked (not hot water added mix) lots of fresh blueberries and walnuts, yum. Service was super friendly and ++ bonus points for Crema
coffee shop inside as well. Great affordablity for the high quality.

Walking past, the idea of burrito /​salad wrap enticed me into Freshii.
Late afternoon, the shop wasn’t crowded. I ordered at the counter speaking to the server. The clipboard/​checkbox thing may be efficient for busy lunchers, but I’ve little inclination to work that much for a snack.
I had a cobb wrap and picked up a couple of gluten-​free muffin/​cupcake things from the little bakery kiosk embedded in the wall.
I found the décor witty in a slightly-​overwrought corporate way.
(The periodic table of ingredients appealed to me. What can I say? I’m a nerd.)
The place was impeccably clean and the service was fast and accurate.
My wrap was very good with fresh ingredients. It tasted as I imagined it would.
I did ask for more dressing for dipping. I had it instantly with a smile and no extra charge.
The mini-​muffins were interesting. The passion-​fruit flavor was tasty but I found their texture overly dense and grainy. I’m glad I tried them, but probably wouldn’t try more.
Overall, I was happy with Freshii.
Clean, efficient, fresh & tasty, all at a good price.

I love the wraps here! They recently completed a large reno and changed the menu, and everything looks great.
If you’ve never been to a Freshii, they give you little clipboards so you can come up with your own wrap or salad. On the new menu, the wrap I usually make is actually cheaper! It’s only 80 cents or so, but a giant wrap with chicken and tons of veggies for $ 9 isn’t all that bad.
All in all this is generally a pretty healthy place to go for lunch, and the service is very good.
My only complaint is just how crowded it gets at lunch, meaning you can end up waiting a while for your food. This location is also very small, so don’t expect to be able to find a table.

I am SO TORN
I actually like Freshii. I like the Salad’s, I like the fact that the Chicken is raised without anti-​biotics and such (I contacted head office and asked) and I like their burritos when I am cheating with wheat. I also like the bio-​degradable bags, the enviro-​conscious bit. everything, but I have recently become. aggravated with Freshii.
Here is the deal. Freshii has a loyalty card program. You collect stamps (8 or so) and you get a free salad. Everyone is used to the loyalty card system these days, right? December, I am particularly busy and not finding the time to prepare my lunch as often. Freshii is right beside my office, and they offer healthy and quick lunches, although not cheaply. A customized salad is basically $ 12. I get it. But I am also somewhat relieved that after 8 of these puppies I get one for free.
I pick up a non-​descript loyalty card, and begin stamping away during December. I happily make my way through right before the holidays and decide to save my salad for the first day back in the office. I visit January 3^rd and am told that I had to redeem my free salad in DECEMBER and that my card is not valid. Absolutely NO WHERE on the card, menu, box the cards sit in, ANYWHERE is any messaging regarding the «same month» rule. Not even a «December» on the card itself. I very begrudgingly purchased my salad and left. Honestly I have yet to return. I then contacted head office again and go not response. TIGHT.
Its the little things. I was eating here twice a week before, now. Im ticked.

I eat here fairly often, but only because there are not better options around for this kind of meal (e.g., rice bowls). The name may make you think of Fresh (
), and the menus are similar, although Fresh’s is much larger. They both have design-​your-​own salads, rice bowls, and wraps.
The difference, though, is that at Freshii the flavour is simply not there. The basic ingredients are OK, but the sum they add up to is always a bit blah.
If you want to experience this kind of thing done right, go to Fresh. If that is too far, Fresh can be your poor second choice.

I really find their food here delicious but I can’t justify paying $ 15 for takeout salad. Plus, I have doubts as to how ’ fresh ’ their stuff is. We have ordered their food for our office meetings so many times and I find it weird how many of us got sick afterwards. And by the way, I follow them on twitter and what they give away for free if you mention their tweet, is really a joke. It’s something like an ounce of mango with your salad purchase.

I didn’t mean to go to Freshii for lunch the other day, but events conspired in such a way that I was in the neighbourhood (hoping to buy a Indie Coffee Pass from Crema Coffee — but they were sold out) and the line was short (because their debit was down) and my stomach decided it was time to eat.
After looking at the menu board, I filled out the custom order form (and there were LOTS of options to choose from.) s and handed it to the nice server informing everyone that the debit machine wasn’t working. (right at noon time! what terrible timing!)
I got the spinach wrap, grilled and filled with veggies, with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Can’t go wrong with that combo. It was warm and fast. Even though there wasn’t much reason to (nothing to melt, nothing needed to be cooked) I’m glad I got it grilled. It seemed to help keep the wrap together as I was running down Bloor.
If you don’t feel like making up a meal for yourself they also have a huge selection of «Chef Creations» (at least one of which is vegan) that you can modify further if you feel like it (for an extra charge).
The other benefit to this location is that Crema Coffee is right inside, so you can get a wrap, salad, bowl, or whatever AND get a delicious cup of coffee too. And by the way, Crema has one of the best soy latte’s I’ve had in the city… though maybe I should save that for a Crema review…
Just a note, I can never get the freshii wifi to work with my iPod Touch, but I can connect to it with my netbook. Maybe it’s me, but I’m just going to blame them on this one.

Really hungry and wanting something healthy I decided to give this place a second try. First of all, they were out of brown rice to that tossed my initial menu plans out the window. I settle with the Turkey Cobb Wrap, which while bland without hot sauce, I figured would at least be better for me than the Pizzaiola «Godfather» slice that had been calling my name.
Wrong.
I got back to my desk and decided to look up the nutriontional value of this «healthy alternative». Because nowhere on their site do they list the premade menu items, I had to select each item on their menu generator to learn what I was eating. The result:
Calories: 819
Total Fat: 43.41
Saturated Fat :10.97
Cholesterol: 267mg
Sodium: 1661mg
Total Carbohydrate: 61mg
Dietary Fiber :9.14mg
Protein 46mg (this seems impossibly high).
I know this is my own fault for ordering it but I really thought that anything I ordered from there would be a healthy lunch alternative to pizza or burgers.
I know I should have been prepared and brought a lunch, but I didnt. I feel angry and mislead that a company that bills itself as a healthy eatery could have something so dastardly as one of their «chef designed» menu items.
Never eating there again.

A salad is a salad is a salad — but for some reason it always tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
The selection is endless — you choose the lettuce type, the mixings, the dressing and even the amount of each item and level of dressing. Unlike most choose/​make your own salad places, the price is not done by weight, but by the type of protein and quantity. There is a standard price for the base lettuce.
I normally get a spinach mix with chicken and an oil and vinegar mix, but the other day I had the Bliss Bowl… Ohhhhh amazingness to go! Brown rice, red peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, avocado and goats cheese… I added chicken to it as well and it was just amazing! It didn’t look big when I got it, but I was full and truly «blissed out» for the rest of the day. I would suggest it if you’re in the mood for a yummy lunch.
I hear they have great frozen yogurt, but I’ve yet to have that… the summer is still young though.
This location — albeit the only one I’ve been in, I find is small for the volume of ppl that come through the doors. The layout is difficult to manurer, but the staff try their best to keep the flow moving. When you enter, you have to grab a clip board and create your order then and it to a staff member behind the counter. While waiting, you pay for your order and they then deliver it to you while you stand randomly near the counter.
As a side note — Freshii used to be called Lettuce, so for some of you — you probably have been here and didn’t notice a change. The name change came when the US company bought them out.

If you need a healthy quick meal in the area, this is a great spot to go. I usually go here or Craft Burger if I have no time to eat at home as I’m always in this area. Service here was really friendly when I went, both here and Crema attached. It’s not really that great, but it’s not so bad. Apart from the random limp lettuce leaves in the salad, it’s pretty decent. I’d say 3-​stars for food, but since I’m in need of healthy food in this area and because the service is friendly, I’d say 4. If you don’t have the time to go to a real restaurant, go here.